English electric bs no

[guest119]

Hi team

Anybody got a clue for the bs number for the attached pic? Thanks, Boyd

 

[telectrix]

if in doubt BS 60947-3, but could be to an earlier BS.

 

[Popski]

What's English Electrics doing in Scotland?

Whats behind the door when you open it?

Fantastic company made the Lightning Jet and the Deltic Locamotive

 

[guest119]

Cant open the door pop, sewage plant, ---- will hit the fan (or maybe the street) if I kill it to open.
Looks like a spreader chamber with the isolator to one side.
Paxoleen panels around it on the inside.

Thanks Tele.



Boydy

 

[grantr37]

What's English Electrics doing in Scotland? Whats behind the door when you open it? Fantastic company made the Lightning Jet and the Deltic Locamotive

I want to buy an English Electric Lightning and restore it.....when I can get a few extra people on board, and a bit saved up.....there's a few people doing it already in the UK and some expats living in America have bought a couple they are doing up and going to fly in the states, there was a company in Cape town (Ask Marvo about Thunder City) that had a few in good condition that they were flying to take tourists up but they put them into storage......I can get access to a closed airbase and hangers/workshop next to a town I used to live in years ago.... one of the reasons that I like that old plane so much is that is can do what other jets cannot(even current day) it was designed to intercept high altitude soviet spy bombers and missiles and was set up to climb to the edge of space...... capable of flying up to the altitude of the red bull space jump that was on TV in October 2012......this was a specialist plane...up far enough to see the curve of the earth......unfortunately these days they don't put nearly as much effort into aircraft (or anything else) and it's all generic "off the shelf" same worldwide parts and machines... if you look around you will see that we designed a lot of the planes that other countries *ahem* took from us, we got forced to hand over the projects and designs in return for the nod on IMF loans and the ironing out of oil selling issues in the late 1970's and the 1980's...just think invisible/Triangular and fast/black/sweeping curves, pointy/London to New York in 2 hours......of course they will angrily deny this filled with furious furious vengeful rage.....but its the truth....

 

[Popski]

There was one in a scrap yard at the side of the A1 in Lincolnshire it may be still there.
You might have probs geting the engins for it though

 

[grantr37]

There was one in a scrap yard at the side of the A1 in Lincolnshire it may be still there.
You might have probs geting the engins for it though

engines are available from storage, parts as well......think that one at the scrap got mashed in with a digger......but there's ones in storage warehouses, some mainly whole, some broken up to bits....if the engines were unavailable then new ones could be manufactured up.....unfortunately that would be about 2 @ £180,000 each....(£360,000)

 

[ste77]

looks like a bs5419